Several experts are calling for competency testing for physicians aged 65 years or older. Delegates at the American Medical Association (AMA) met this past June to discuss guidelines for testing older ...

At the American Medical Association s annual meeting, officials said they are developing mandatory competency guidelines for aging physicians. With more than a quarter of doctors over the age of 65, ...

As millions of Americans approach age 66, they face the inevitable question, is it time to retire? The physician population is aging alongside the general population—more than 40% of physicians in the ...

Spectrum News: Sharona Hoffman, the Edgar A. Hahn Professor of Law and co-director of the Law-Medicine Center, weighed in on a controversial idea in politics: requiring mandatory competency testing ...

Medical doctors are becoming victims of age discrimination in Las Vegas. So asserts Dr. Dale Carrison, the 77-year-old chief of staff at University Medical Center and the hospital’s head of emergency ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- A set of guiding principles from an American Medical Association council on assessing the competency of senior/late career physicians failed to gain adoption at the AMA's ...

Utah legislators advanced a bill to the state Senate Feb. 26 that would prohibit hospitals and health systems in the state from testing a physician’s competency through a cognitive test after they ...